Kontron, along with teams from Assystem Pacific, Bioceanor and Easy Global Market (EGM), are installing intelligent systems to monitor water quality in the Pacific Ocean. They are working together under the leadership of System Factory, the Cluster 4.0 for France’s “Region Sud”, dedicated to the engineering of complex systems. These systems, set up at the Centre de Recherches Insulaires et Observatoire de l’Environnement (CRIOBE), aim to measure the physico-chemical parameters of the water in the Opunohu lagoon in Moorea and monitor its pollution.
Connected buoys developed by Bioceanor in collaboration with EGM now make it possible to monitor the environment of coral reefs using data collected in real time. Monitored parameters include temperature, salinity, turbidity and even certain pollutants. A box PC developed by Kontron acts as both a LoRaWAN-compatible IoT gateway and a network server. It converts the status information sent by these sensors into MQTT streams and enables continuous secure retrieval and remote analysis of this data. Assystem Pacifique and Easy Global Market teams integrated this networked LoRa system.
According to Kontron, the next step will be to build a 24- to 48-hour forecasting system based on the analysis of the collected data. In addition, the collaboration between System Factory and local organizations in French Polynesia will continue. Assystem, Bioceanor, Easy Global Market (EGM) and Kontron presented the technology used in the system at the System Factory Day on December 11 at the Palais du Commerce et de la Mer in Toulon.
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